Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 26, 2026

1. Who we are

FredSky ("the app," "we," "us") is a personal astronomy app for iPhone. It is not a commercial service: there are no accounts, no ads, no analytics for marketing, and no data brokers. Your information is never sold, rented, or shared with third parties for their own purposes, and nothing you do in the app is used to track you across other apps or websites.

2. Information the app uses

FredSky has no sign-up and asks for nothing about your identity — no name, no email, no account. It uses only what it needs to work:

• Location (precise, while using the app) — used on your device to compute exactly which stars, planets, and satellites are overhead and to aim the camera overlay. When you identify a bird, your coordinates are sent together with the recording so the identifier can weight the result by region and season. Location is only accessed while the app is open, is never tracked in the background, and is never stored on our servers.
• Bird-song audio — when you tap record in the Birds area, a short recording (about 20 seconds) is sent to our server to identify the species. It is deleted from the server the moment identification finishes; it is not retained, not linked to you, and never shared.
• Camera — the point-and-look sky mode overlays labels on the live camera view. The video stays on your device; no images are captured, saved, or transmitted.

3. What stays on your device

Your bird sightings (the life list), your night-mode and display preferences, and the downloaded star and satellite data live only on your iPhone. They are not uploaded to us. Deleting the app removes them.

4. How your information is used

• To draw the correct sky for your location and point the AR overlay.
• To identify a bird from a recording you choose to submit.

That's all. Your data is never used for advertising, profiling, or tracking.

5. Services that help run the app

These providers process data only to perform the functions above, on our behalf:

• Supabase — hosts the functions that handle bird identification and the shared species illustrations. The recording you submit is staged in private storage and deleted immediately after identification.
• BirdNET identification service — receives the recording (and the region/season hint) to return the likely species, then the recording is discarded.
• Google Gemini — generates one field-guide illustration per bird species, server-side, shared to everyone. Only the species name is sent; none of your data, location, or recordings are involved.
• CelesTrak — the app downloads public satellite orbital data. Nothing about you is sent.

6. Your choices

You can grant or revoke Location, Microphone, and Camera access at any time in the iPhone Settings → FredSky. Denying them simply disables the related feature — the offline star chart still works. Because there is no account and no personal data is retained on our servers, there is nothing to delete server-side; removing the app clears everything held on your device.

7. Children

FredSky is not directed at children and collects no personal information for advertising or tracking from anyone.

8. Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the date above will be updated. Questions: fred@fleetidy.com.